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TechCrunch Feed Reader Breakdown - Outlook Rules Them AllEvery once in a while we show some of the stats about the feed readers people are using to access TechCrunch content. Since we recently passed a million daily RSS readers, now is a good time for a new update. In June 2006 Firefox, Bloglines and Newsgator were the three largest readers, in that order. Feedburner did an analysis later in 2006 with similar results. Long ago Google reader eclipsed all of those readers. And recently, Outlook has surged as the feed reader of choice. Of our roughly 1.4 million RSS readers, 520,000, or about 38%, come from Outlook. 390,000,...
Surprisingly, 38% of all TechCrunch RSS readers do so in Outlook, higher than any other feed reader. - Louis Gray
Outlook... *shivers* - Aram Zucker-Scharff
great statistics - but netvibes and bloglines are so bad in numbers. - Erhan Erdogan
That is because Outlook is soo easy - it brings all of your inbound comms into 1 place. - Angus Logan
@Angus, totally agree. While I don't use the native RSS functionality in Outlook I do use the Attensa Outlook Plugin so that everything is in one place (for business at least). At home I do the same thing with Thunderbird. Well, not exactly the same since Attensa doesn't have a Thunderbird plugin. - Kenton
Apparently a lot of people read feeds from work and while there, they are forced to use Outlook. May they become enlightened and discover Google Reader... - Glenn Batuyong
The Outlook % is indeed a surprise. - Jay
That must be the Windows RSS Platform, not just Outlook 2007. - Dileepa Prabhakar
outlook does some neat stuff in terms of categorization, and easy forwarding to your coworkers etc. - Angus Logan
sweet! - Marissa
I still cant believe you blog for techCruch - JD E.
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